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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-loup-et-le-renard-juges-par-le-singe.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 1, Fable 11</span><span class="fp-text">L'ÂNE ET LE LION À LA CHASSE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber I, Fabula XI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ASINUS ET LEO VENANTES</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les sans-courages qui proclament leur gloire</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">trompent les ignorants, mais sont la risée de ceux qui savent.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ignotos fallit, notis est derisui.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le lion voulait chasser avec son compagnon l'âne,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">alors il le camoufla avec des branchages, et l'invita en même temps</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">à faire fuir les animaux grâce à sa voix inhabituelle,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pendant que lui-même les prendrait par surprise dans leur fuite. L'animal aux longues oreilles</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pousse aussitôt un cri de toutes ses forces,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et grâce à ce singulier prodige, sème la panique parmi les animaux.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Tremblants de peur, ils cherchent à gagner les issues habituelles,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais sont terrassés par la terrible charge du lion.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Puis celui-ci, fatigué du carnage, appelle l'âne</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et lui ordonne de se taire. L'autre dit alors avec arrogance&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Que penses-tu de l'effet de ma voix&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Remarquable, répond-il, au point que si je ne connaissais pas ton</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">courage et ton genre, j'aurais fui de peur pareillement.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Venari asello comite cum vellet leo,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">contexit illum frutice et <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n71/mode/1up">p.8</a>]</span> admonuit simul</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut insueta voce terreret feras,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fugientes ipse ut exciperet. Hic <span class="fp-correction" title="auriculas  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">auritulus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="auritulus  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">auriculas</span></span></span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">clamorem subito tollit totis viribus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">novoque turbat bestias miraculo.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="Que  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Quae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Quae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Que</span></span> dum paventes exitus notos petunt,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">leonis <span class="fp-correction" title="adficiuntur  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">adfliguntur</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="adfliguntur  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">adficiuntur</span></span> horrendo impetu.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Qui postquam caede fessus, asinum evocat</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">jubetque vocem premere. Tunc ille insolens&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Qualis tibi videtur opera vocis meae&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Insignis, inquit, sic ut, nisi nossem tuum</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">animum genusque, simili fugissem in metu.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. Corne, 24/8/2013</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Lion_et_l%E2%80%99%C3%82ne_chassant">Le Lion et l’Âne chassant</a></div>
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